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...explain to anyone, or show him either, how he will react emotionally to Communist prisoner-handling methods . . . so how can you expect a man to harden himself to unusual conditions by watching instructors whip off a routine demonstration in which the student can take no part...
When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...
Since then the girls have worked as hard as ever. Gut-wrenching wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow they also find the strength to practice the fine points of flip turns and racing starts...
...semi-finals, Fisher edged Jim Harden of Dunster, 5 to 4. Kadin entered the finals by a 5 to 3 victory over Nat Geary of Eliot House...
...Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million mindless people, swayed by the mind of one man, one idea...